Hello, welcome!
I’ve been on an explore of WordPress Reader and have had a little spree of likes, comments and follows to see who is Out There!
It has taken me an embarrassing length of time to figure out how to connect my self-hosted WordPress.org to WordPress.com!
But I did it! (I think) Now I can use Jetpack Reader to follow WordPress blogs and it’s a million times easier to explore, like and comment.
A whole new world.
If you’re new here I appreciate you taking a look, and please say Hi and let me know what you’re interested in and what you blog about! (If you do blog)
I especially would love to find some book blog friends, I really miss being in a book club!
But I also want to talk about
– Crafts, especially embroidery but in general I love to make stuff and I love people who make stuff!
– I’m a learner gardener, enthusiastic but no idea what I’m doing! I really love flowers.
– I am a hardcore introvert with social anxiety, so I’m about that life. It’s why I named this website Wallflower.
– Just trying to figure out myself, the world and my place in it?
– The random bits of information I learn and have to share before it leaks out the other side of my brain.
– I would like to read what other people have going on, just blogs where people have fun and post from their own brains! That’s what I do, this blog is all over the place.
This list is ever changing, and I will update it when I think of other things!
Hello! You already found my blog, but I thought I’d say hi and tell you a few more things you might not know about me.
I am a terrible gardener. I get overenthusiastic and plant lots of things, then it rains every day for a month and I ignore the garden, and when I get back it’s been overrun by weeds. I’m currently trying to grow kale because I eat a lot of kale, but it’s midwinter so the kake is basically looking at me, not growing, and saying “what?”
I like to grow feijoas, but feijoas do not like to grow for me. I have lots of bushes, and all my research tells me nothing eats feijoa bushes, but something decidedly eats my feijoa bushes as soon as they grow leaves. This means they never get bigger, and will never get big enough to fruit.
The thing I can grow is New Zealand cranberries, which have another name, but NZ decided to claim them so someone renamed them. The plants are ugly and the berries taste a bit like socks, but they fruit like mad in our soil even if you do absolutely nothing to them, so I have several and I’m getting more.
Like you, I’m an introvert. Currently I work in an office one day a week, and I find that amount of human contact is exactly right.
I’ve been working in the same job for 11 years, and the world is telling me I need to do something different, maybe something entirely different. It’s scary, but also exciting, and I have no idea what it might be.
I never have time to read as many books as I want to, but when I read books often I have a hard time connecting with the characters. I can’t tell if the books are just not the right ones for me, or if burnout broke my reading brain. I’m still hoping it will magically fix on its own.
I’m also a terrible cook, which matters more now that I’ve tried to go plant-based. One day I may blog about some of my recipes, but no one should every try them. Sometimes I still eat pizza.
Hi! I appreciate the comment. I am a real novice gardener, there is so much to learn and I don’t know how you can absorb it all! I also tend to forget about the garden when we’ve had periods of rain! It’s rained for about 2 weeks and I keep forgetting I still need to water my tomato plants that are actually under cover. I think they’re surviving but they’re just not fruiting yet. I have flowers on them but no baby toms yet, I need the bees to do their thing I think. I at least learned from last year’s failed attempt how to pinch out the side shoots so I don’t have a big tangled mess of branches and nothing else.
I keep thinking I’ll blog about it, maybe I will. Always too much I’m trying to do!
I’ve never heard of feijoas but I looked them up and they look interesting. The internet says they should taste pineappley… if you ever get any fruit that is!
What do you do with all the cranberries?
11 years is a long time! I’ve been in mine just over 6 years now and I need a change, I just don’t know what I actually want to do at this point! Or what my realistic options are. I work from home full time now which does suit me, but sometimes I do miss being able to chat to my colleagues in the office.
Your reading brain will heal when you find the right book! What kind of thing do you read?
Your blog post/book review made me fall out of my chair laughing. You have a refreshing writing style!
Thank you Miriam, that’s kind of you to say! I tried to look at the site in your description but it doesn’t seem to be live any more.
Hi!
love your book reviews and your floral embroidery. I was also into crafts a year earlier, specifically in stationery crafts. Good to hear you are also involved in nature (gardening). Love Flowers? Don’t tell me. 🙂 which one’s your favourite?
I reached out to you on Instagram but didn’t received a response. I couldn’t find your email as well. Anyways, would like to get connected. I also started blogging. Setting up my blog for now.
Thank
Hi Waleed, I am not good with spotting Instagram messages, plus there are some strange people out there (and increasingly bots and scams!) so I generally ignore out the blue messages unless the person is being clear why they want to get in touch, and that they’re a human!
What kind of stationary crafts did you do? Sounds interesting!
I will take a little look at your blog! Thank you for your kind words 🙂
I’m Human 🙈 although i used animal emoji here because the Face With Peeking Eye Emoji doesn’t work here. I don’t know, coming here for replies is a bit lengthy process. If you saw my message on insta with same profile photo. That would be me, not a bot. 🙂
Regarding stationery crafts, I did for events like birthdays or wedding ceremonies, school parties etc. It was fun but i was limited on resources and customers were not paying good enough to keep it going so I almost wined it up commercially.
After I wrote WAY too much about nothing, inspired by your thoughts on The Expanse books, I read about you. This made me laugh, because I started gardening in 2019 after I finally bought my first house (vs a lifetime of renting) and I make jewelry for fun and to relax. It’s faster than drawing and painting (I drew and illustrated about 100 years ago). We all need these escapes! I taught German and literature for about 20 years, before switching careers. Now I love my work as an academic advisor for university students, and it gives me more free time for my own pursuits than I ever had when I was teaching. I used to travel, but haven’t been abroad since 2015, my last time in the UK (Litchfield, London, all between the two; Ireland) and I live in Washington state. Since I adore many English, Scottish, and Irish authors, I can’t wait to get some new names from you. (Do you like Martin Millar? Scottish writer who lives in London, I think his Kalix, the Lonely Werewolf Girl series; other novels are brilliant.) Okay, way too long again! It’s Saturday morning and I’m enjoying relaxing with our two cats, Levon & Oscar, and reading & writing on my mobile a little too much! You inspired me today, Alice! cheers, Tatum
Hi Tatum! I think a lot of home owners find a later in life interest in gardening! I’m really throwing myself into it this year, I was busy with it last weekend and this one. At the moment though it consists of 90% doing weeding and digging out ivy.
Jewellery making is interesting! What materials do you work with?
Levon and Oscar are fantastic names for cats by the way! I hope you all enjoyed your relaxing morning 🙂